Guilt feeling

[marialina]

Have you experienced passing by a beggar on the wayside but failed to give alms because you were in a hurry? I just did today and I feel guilty

 

[Trishie]

I guess you’ll be thinking about your future response but unless you can find the person again there isn’t much practical you can do for this particular person,
but you can pray for this person with all your heart.
Maybe nobody ever did.
And maybe, right now, as the other moment has passed, that’s the best gift you can give…

May God bless you,
and this person.

 

[Dave_B]

Have you experienced passing by a beggar on the wayside but failed to give alms because you were in a hurry? I just did today and I feel guilty

Yes, I’ve felt guilty too. But the Romanian beggars in my town look suspiciously clean and well dressed, makes me think they are not really that destitute.

 

[Steady_Eddy]

Yes, I’ve felt guilty too. But the Romanian beggars in my town look suspiciously clean and well dressed, makes me think they are not really that destitute.

Hello there,

I was involved in helping Romanians for a few years. What most people don’t know about them is they don’t receive any social welfare, and they are not entitled to medical cards either. I wrote letters and met with various people in an effort to have this altered but to no avail. I also approached two local charities on their behalf, both of which helped a little but then stopped. I continued alone helping one family for almost a year that family has since left I believe for England.

Whilst speaking to one woman at one of the local charities mentioned above I said the following. These people are so desperate, if they don’t get help soon some of the girls will turn to prostitution in order to survive, and she replied “That’s their choice” to which I retorted angrily, their choices and our choices are two entirely different things. Since then one 18 year old Romanian girl was gang raped over a long period and then shot through the head. Her body was found just recently. Another young Romanian girl was killed either at a house or flat here in Ireland a few years ago. And an older Romanian lady was also killed in Dublin Ireland just recently. I felt so sick when I heard and read about these cases, and I still do to this very day. You can read some of the details if you Google the text below.

2 Cor 13:13
Eddy Barry

Irish detectives shocked by details of Romanian teenager’s murder

 

[Splagchnizomai]

Have you experienced passing by a beggar on the wayside but failed to give alms because you were in a hurry? I just did today and I feel guilty

Pray for patience against the tyranny of the urgent.

Give a little extra to the next beggar you see.

 

[AlanFromWichita]

Sometimes I give, sometimes I don’t. Reasons vary. But no guilt. I don’t do guilt anymore, and I don’t owe anyone, including myself, a reason for my choices. Sometimes I feel led to give; sometimes I feel the Spirit urging me to keep a distance … the Spirit may very well have something in mind for the beggar.

Alan